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Christoph Becker

Professor

Faculty of Information

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BIO

Christoph Becker is Full Professor at the Faculty of Information and the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto. He leads the Just Sustainability Design lab (www.justsustainabilitydesign.org). With a background in computer science and informatics, his research today focuses on enacting meaningful change in computing to meet the urgent need for sustainability and social justice (converging in just sustainability) through 

(1) critical examination of the politics, values, and cognitive processes of design,
(2) development of methods and tools for just sustainability design,
(3) design projects to bring forth just sustainabilities in urban contexts.

His book Insolvent: How to reorient computing for just sustainability appeared at MIT Press in 2023 and won multiple awards.

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Full Professor
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada1 Jul 2023 - present
  • Associate Professor
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada2018 - 2023
  • Associate Member
    University of Toronto, School of the Environment, Toronto, Canada2015 - present
  • Director
    University of Toronto, Digital Curation Institute, Toronto, Canada2014 - 2024
  • Assistant Professor
    University of Toronto, Faculty of Information, Toronto, Canada2013 - 2018
  • Senior Scientist
    Vienna University of Technology, Faculty of Informatics, Vienna, Austria2012 - 2017
  • Founding Member
    University of Toronto, Sustainability Informatics Research Group, Toronto, Canada2016 - present

DEGREES

  • PhD, Computer Science
    Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria2010
  • MSc, Economics and Computer Science
    Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria2007
  • MS, Computer Science
    Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria2006
  • BSc, Computer Science
    Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria2004

LANGUAGES

  • Spanish - Latin American
    Can read, write, speak and understand
  • German
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review

AVAILABILITY

  • Industry Projects
  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision
  • Collaborative projects
  • Membership of an advisory committee
  • Join a web conference as a panellist or speaker

INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

  • Data Sciences Institute (DSI)

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